Biography

Eugene, Oregon based artist Jan Reaves received her MFA from the University of Oregon in 1983. She paints primarily large-scale works with an interest in gesture and the formal relationships of shapes and signs. Her work has been selected for the Oregon Biennial four times since 1985. Other exhibitions include Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA. She has won various awards including the Juror’s award for the 2001 Oregon Biennial at the the Portland Art Museum. She has taught art around the Northwest and the University of Oregon since 1988.

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Jan Reaves: 1945–2018

RACC Portable Works Collection

Regional Arts & Culture Council adds 56 artworks to the Portable Works Collection

2/27/2015

The Regional Arts & Culture Council recently announced 56 artworks by 39 artists that were added to the Portable Works Collection of smaller scale artworks that rotate through City and County office facilities.

We are pleased that Laura Russo Gallery artists Judith Poxson Fawkes, Fay Jones, Dana Lynn Louis, Jan Reaves, and Samantha Wall were included in their selection!

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Painting in the Long Shadows of PaintingOregon ArtsWatch

“It seems that the main focus of painting is to give pleasure,” the painter Robert Ryman said. “If someone can receive pleasure from looking at paintings, then that’s the best thing that can happen.” If you have interest in the pleasures of looking at paintings, this is a really good month.

Sherrie Wolf and Jan Reaves, showing at Laura Russo Gallery, work at opposite ends of the old false dichotomy between representational and abstract painting. Wolf paints still-lifes in a very tight realist way, and Reaves paints big bold painterly abstractions.